What happened on April 9? There are more than 280 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About April 9
April 9 is the 100th day of the year 2024. There are 266 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 15th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Lebanon, Tennessee 37088 sunrise occured at 06:17 AM and sunset occured at 07:15 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aries. The modern birthstone for this month is Diamond while the mystical birthstone is Opal.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 295 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For April 9
- 193Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
- 475Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
- 1241Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.
- 1388Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.
- 1413Henry V is crowned King of England.
- 1440Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.
- 1511St John’s College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.
- 1585The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
- 1609Eighty Years’ War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
- 1682Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
- 1782American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins.
- 1852At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam–God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.
- 1860On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
- 1865American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
- 1867Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
- 1909The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
- 1914Mexican Revolution: One of the world’s first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
- 1916World War I: The Battle of Verdun – German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
- 1917World War I: The Battle of Arras – the battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
- 1918The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
- 1918World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
- 1937The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London – it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
- 1939Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall.
- 1940World War II: Operation Weserübung – Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
- 1942World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March – United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island’s east coast.
- 1945The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
- 1945World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
- 1945World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.
- 1947The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- 1947The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court’s 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
- 1948Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
- 1948Jorge Eliécer Gaitán’s assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.
- 1952Hugo Ballivian’s government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
- 1957The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
- 1959Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the “Mercury Seven”.
- 1961The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
- 1965Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
- 1967The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
- 1968Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1969The “Chicago Eight” plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1969The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
- 19758 people in South Korea, who are involved in People’s Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
- 1975The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
- 1980The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
- 1981The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
- 1989The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
- 1992A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
- 1992John Major’s Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.
- 20032003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces;Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.
- 2005Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor’s Guildhall.
- 2009In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
- 2011A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the Netherlands.
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Who Were Born On April 9?
- 1498John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550)
- 1597John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (d. 1670)
- 1634Albertine Agnes of Nassau, Regent of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe (d. 1696)
- 1648Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)
- 1649James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of Great Britain (d. 1685)
- 1680Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754)
- 1686James Craggs the Younger, British politician (d. 1721)
- 1691Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (d. 1761)
- 1757Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (d. 1833)
- 1770Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831)
- 1773Étienne Aignan, French writer (d. 1824)
- 1794Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)
- 1806Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (d. 1859)
- 1821Charles Baudelaire, French poet (d. 1867)
- 1830Eadweard Muybridge, English-born photographer and motion picture pioneer (d. 1904)
- 1835King Leopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
- 1846Paolo Tosti, Italian composer (d. 1916)
- 1865Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German-born engineer and mathematician (d. 1923)
- 1865Erich Ludendorff, German general in World War I (d. 1937)
- 1867Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
- 1872Léon Blum, French prime minister (d. 1950)
- 1882Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, (d. 1946)
- 1888Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (d. 1974)
- 1889Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (d. 1985)
- 1893Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, writer, scholar (d. 1963)
- 1895Michel Simon, French actor (d. 1975)
- 1897John B. Gambling, American radio talk show host (d. 1974)
- 1898Earl “Curly” Lambeau, American football coach, executive (d. 1965)
- 1898Paul Robeson, American singer and activist (d. 1976)
- 1900Allen Jenkins, American actor (d. 1974)
- 1901Paul Willis, American actor (d. 1960)
- 1903Ward Bond, American actor (d. 1960)
- 1904Sharkey Bonano, American musician (d. 1972)
- 1905J. William Fulbright, American politician (d. 1995)
- 1906Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
- 1906Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress (d. 1996)
- 1908Joseph Krumgold, American author and scriptwriter
- 1908Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-born painter (d. 1997)
- 1910Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (d. 1998)
- 1912Lev Kopelev, Russian author (d. 1997)
- 1913Smaro Stefanidou, Greek actress (d. 2010)
- 1915Daniel Johnson, Sr., Canadian politician (d. 1968)
- 1917Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1917Johannes Bobrowski, German lyricist and writer (d. 1965)
- 1918Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (d. 2008)
- 1919J. Presper Eckert, American computer pioneer (d. 1995)
- 1921Frankie Thomas, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1921Jean-Marie Balestre, French motorsports official (FIA) (d. 2008)
- 1922Carl Amery, German writer (d. 2005)
- 1926Hugh Hefner, American entrepreneur and publisher
- 1928Paul Arizin, American basketball player (d. 2006)
- 1928Tom Lehrer, American satirist and mathematician
- 1929Paule Marshall, American author
- 1930F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
- 1930Nathaniel Branden, Canadian psychotherapist
- 1931Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (d. 1991)
- 1932Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (d. 2006)
- 1932Carl Perkins, American musician (d. 1998)
- 1932Jim Fowler, American zoologist
- 1933Fern Michaels, American author
- 1933Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
- 1934Bill Birch, New Zealand politician
- 1935Avery Schreiber, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1936Valerie Solanas, American feminist, attempted murderer of Andy Warhol (d. 1988)
- 1937Marty Krofft, Canadian television producer
- 1937Valerie Singleton, British television presenter
- 1938Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (d. 2010)
- 1939Michael Learned, American actress
- 1940Jim Roberts, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1941Chu Song-woong, Korean stage actor (d. 1985)
- 1941Hannah Gordon, British actress
- 1941Kay Adams, American country singer
- 1942Brandon De Wilde, American actor (d. 1972)
- 1943Terry Knight, American music promoter (d. 2004)
- 1944Joe Brinkman, American Major League Umpire
- 1945Peter Gammons, American sports journalist
- 1945Steve Gadd, American session drummer
- 1946David Webb, English footballer and coach
- 1946Nate Colbert, American baseball player
- 1948Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress
- 1953Hal Ketchum, American musician
- 1953John Howard, English singer-songwriter
- 1954Dennis Quaid, American actor
- 1954Iain Duncan Smith, British politician
- 1955Joolz Denby, English poet and novelist
- 1955Kate Heyhoe, American food writer
- 1956Miguel Ángel Russo, Argentine footballer
- 1957Brian Alexander, British broadcaster
- 1957Martin Margiela, Belgian fashion designer
- 1957Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (d. 2011)
- 1961Kirk McCaskill, pro baseball and hockey player
- 1961Mark Kelly, British keyboard player (Marillion)
- 1962Ihor Podolchak, Ukrainian artist and film director
- 1962Imran Sherwani, British field hockey player
- 1963Joe Scarborough, American television personality
- 1963Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer
- 1964Margaret Peterson Haddix, American author
- 1964Rick Tocchet, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1964Rob Awalt, American football player
- 1964Soyo Oka, Japanese musician
- 1965Jay Wesley Neill, American murderer (d. 2002)
- 1965Jeff Zucker, American television executive
- 1965Mark Pellegrino, American actor
- 1965Paulina Porizkova, Czechoslovakian actress and supermodel
- 1966Cynthia Nixon, American actress
- 1967Alex Kahn, American artist
- 1970Mike Barz, American meteorologist and TV anchor
- 1970Tricia Penrose, British actress and singer
- 1971Austin Peck, American actor
- 1971Earl Cole, Winner of Survivor: Fiji
- 1971Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian racing driver
- 1971Leo Fortune-West, English footballer
- 1971Peter Canavan, Gaelic footballer
- 1972Bernard Ackah, Ivorian mixed martial artist and comedian
- 1973Spenny Rice, Canadian entertainer
- 1974Alexander Pichushkin, Russian serial killer
- 1974Jenna Jameson, American pornographic actress
- 1975David Gordon Green, American filmmaker
- 1975Robbie Fowler, English footballer
- 1977Gerard Way, American singer (My Chemical Romance)
- 1978Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer
- 1978Rachel Stevens, English singer (S Club)
- 1978Veronica Taylor, American actress
- 1978Vesna Pisarović, Croatian singer
- 1979Albert Hammond, Jr., American guitarist (The Strokes)
- 1979Jeff Reed, American football player
- 1979Katsuni, French pornographic actress
- 1979Keith Nobbs, American actor
- 1979Keshia Knight Pulliam, American actress
- 1980Clueso, German singer, rapper, songwriter and producer
- 1980Jerko Leko, Croatian footballer
- 1980Yoanna House, American model
- 1981Dennis Sarfate, American baseball player
- 1981Ireneusz Jeleń, Polish footballer
- 1981Milan Bartovič, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1982Carlos Hernández, Costa Rican footballer
- 1982Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor
- 1984Adam Loewen, Canadian baseball player
- 1984Linda Chung, Canadian/Hong Kong actress and singer
- 1985Antonio Nocerino, Italian footballer
- 1985David Robertson, American baseball player
- 1985Tomohisa Yamashita, Japanese actor and singer (NEWS)
- 1986Brian Larsen, American musician and record producer
- 1986Leighton Meester, American singer and actress
- 1987Craig Mabbitt, American singer (Escape the Fate)
- 1987Jarrod Mullen, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1987Jazmine Sullivan, American R&B singer
- 1987Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer
- 1988Dino Imperial, Filipino actor
- 1988Michel Alves Baroni, Brazilian footballer
- 1988Uee, South Korean actress and singer (After School)
- 1989Danielle Kahle, American figure skater
- 1990Kristen Stewart, American actress
- 1998Elle Fanning, American actress
- 2000Jackie Evancho, American singer
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Who Died On April 9?
- 585 BCEmperor Jimmu, First Japanese Emperor
- 93Yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty
- 436Tan Daoji, Chinese general of the Liu Song Dynasty
- 491Zeno, Byzantine Emperor
- 715Pope Constantine
- 1024Pope Benedict VIII
- 1137William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
- 1305Lord Borchard de Herle, English Diplomat (b. 1268)
- 1483King Edward IV of England (b. 1442)
- 1484Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473)
- 1492Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesmen (b. 1449)
- 1553François Rabelais, French writer
- 1557Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (b. c. 1510)
- 1626Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist (b. 1561)
- 1654Matei Basarab, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1588)
- 1693Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
- 1747Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief
- 1754Christian Wolff, German philosopher (b. 1679)
- 1761William Law, British minister (b. 1686)
- 1804Jacques Necker, French statesman (b. 1732)
- 1806King William V of Orange (b. 1748)
- 1872Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
- 1876Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
- 1889Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
- 1909Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
- 1917James Hope Moulton, British Classical Greek scholar (b. 1863)
- 1922Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidoterist (b. 1866)
- 1926Zip the Pinhead, American side show performer (b. c. 1857)
- 1936Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
- 1940Mrs. Patrick Campbell, British actress (b. 1865)
- 1944Yevgeniya Rudneva, Russian pilot (b. 1920)
- 1945Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German resistance figure (b. 1906)
- 1945Georg Elser, German resistance figure (b. 1903)
- 1945Hans Oster, German resistance figure (b. 1887)
- 1945Hans von Dohnanyi, German resistance figure (b. 1902)
- 1945Karl Sack, German resistance figure (b. 1896)
- 1945Wilhelm Canaris, German resistance figure (b. 1887)
- 1948George Carpenter, Australian Salvation Army general (b. 1872)
- 1948Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
- 1951Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (b. 1862)
- 1953C.E.M. Joad, English philosopher and broadcaster (b. 1891)
- 1953Eddie Cochems, American football player and coach (b. 1877)
- 1959Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
- 1961King Zog I of Albania (b. 1895)
- 1963Eddie Edwards, American jazz tromboner (b. 1891)
- 1970Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (b. 1896)
- 1976Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist (b. 1903)
- 1976Phil Ochs, American singer (b. 1940)
- 1978Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (b. 1883)
- 1980Bint al-Huda, Islamic writer (b. 1938)
- 1980Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Islamic philosopher and economist (b. 1935)
- 1982Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian conductor (b. 1896)
- 1988Brook Benton, American singer (b. 1931)
- 1988David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (b. 1937)
- 1991Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
- 1993Joseph B. Soloveitchik, American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher (b. 1903)
- 1996James W. Rouse, American real estate developer, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1914)
- 1996Richard Condon, American novelist (b. 1915)
- 1997Helene Hanff, American writer (b. 1916)
- 1997Mae Boren Axton, American singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
- 1998Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (b. 1953)
- 1999Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)
- 2001Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
- 2002Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
- 2002Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
- 2003Earl Bramblett, American murderer (b. 1942)
- 2005Andrea Dworkin, American feminist activist and writer (b. 1946)
- 2006Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and official (b. 1916)
- 2006Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (b. 1924)
- 2007Egon Bondy, Czech philosopher and writer (b. 1930)
- 2009Nick Adenhart, American baseball player (b. 1986)
- 2010Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian track and field athlete (b. 1932)
- 2010Zoltán Varga, Hungarian footballer (b. 1945)
- 2011Sidney Lumet, American film director (b. 1924)
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